American Piano: Piano Works by Gottschalk, Joplin & Gershwin

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Release Date: 3rd Oct 2011
Catalogue No: 0829342
Label: EMI
Series: American Classics
Length: 68 minutes

Gottschalk, L: Columbia Caprice Americain, Op. 34

Work length6:49

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gottschalk, L: Marguerite Grande valse brillante RO158 (Op 76)

Work length3:56

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gottschalk, L: La Gallina, Op. 53

Work length2:53

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gottschalk, L: Ballade

Work length3:00

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gottschalk, L: O ma charmante, épargnez-moi! Caprice RO182 (Op 44) 1861

Work length2:53

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gottschalk, L: Suis-moi! - caprice Op. 45 (RO253)

Work length3:07

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Joplin: Paragon Rag

Work length3:51

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Joshua Rifkin (musician)
George Sponhaltz
Recorded: 1974

Joplin: Magnetic Rag

Work length5:02

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Joshua Rifkin (musician)
George Sponhaltz
Recorded: 1974

Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

Work length3:08

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Joshua Rifkin (piano)
Recorded: 1980
Recording Venue: 30 Nov, 1 Dec 1979. The 'Old Met' Church, Philadelphia

Joplin: The Entertainer

Work length5:26

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Joshua Rifkin (musician)
George Sponhaltz
Recorded: 1974

Joplin: The Easy Winners

Work length4:11

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Joshua Rifkin (musician)
George Sponhaltz
Recorded: 1974

Joplin: Pineapple Rag

Work length3:28

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Joshua Rifkin (musician)
George Sponhaltz
Recorded: 1974

Gershwin: Promenade (Walking The Dog) From "Shall We Dance"

Work length2:20

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gershwin: Two Waltzes in C

Work length3:35

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Pennario, George Gershwin: Merry-Andrew

Work length1:08

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gershwin: Ballet From "Primose"

Work length4:29

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gershwin: Three-Quarter Blues

Work length1:32

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gershwin: Rialto Ripples (Rag)

Work length2:12

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1992

Gershwin: No. 1 In B Flat

Work length1:27

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1986

Gershwin: No. 2 In C Sharp Minor

Work length3:16

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1986

Gershwin: No. 3 In E Flat Minor

Work length1:11

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1986

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (born in 1829) was a composer-pianist best known as a virtuoso performer of his own works. He spent most of his working career outside of the United States. Although he became extremely famous in Europe and America when he died his reputation did not survive for very long afterwards.

He showed an early aptitude for music and, at the age of five, was given private lessons. When only 13 years old he was taken to Paris to continue his studies but was turned down by the head of the piano department at the Conservatoire, owing to prejudice against Americans. Such was his prodigious talent that early obstacles were overcome and, at 16, he gave his first recital at the Salle Pleyel, after which Chopin declared that he would become "the king of pianists".

His first composition to gain recognition was Bamboula (track 6 on disc 1 of this set) and this lead to a string of 'hits' wherever he performed. On returning to America he began to tour extensively and slowly to build as great a reputation there as he had in Europe. In 1865 he was forced to leave his native country because of a sex scandal involving a female student and never returned. The final years of his short life were spent touring the countries of the Caribbean and South America. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1869 after collapsing at the piano.

The second disc here contains the remainder of Pennario's Capitol recordings of music by Gottschalk and continues with a selection of popular pieces by Scott Joplin (1867-1917), an African-American pianist-composer who became known as the "the king of rag". Like that of Gottschalk, the popularity of Joplin's music went into decline after his death but received a revival in the 1970s, largely due to the efforts of Joshua Rifkin and the film 'The Sting'. This second CD ends with some of George Gershwin's piano music played by Leonard Pennario.

Leonard Pennario (1924-2008) was an American virtuoso pianist who recorded over 60 LPs, most of them of composers dating from Chopin and later. He is perhaps best known for championing certain composers such as George Gershwin, Rachmaninov, Miklós Rózsa, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Sergei Prokofiev. In 1958, he equalled Walter Gieseking in terms of sales of classical records by pianists.

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